The Station Nightclub Fire
Earlier this year I read the book Killer Show by John Barylick. It was written in 2015 about The Station nightclub fire. I had heard about the story but almost in passing. It was not something that I had gone great lengths to look into. In fact, it was not until I was reading the book that I realized or even saw that there was a video taken at the time of the fire. Maybe it was because while in high school I was only moderately into the rock group Great White . Like a lot of teenagers in the mid to late 1980's I owned their album Twice Shy with really the only song I can truthfully say I liked or even remembered by them (Once Bitten, Twice Shy). To me they were little more than a one hit wonder band although presumably they had at least some followers. Over the next several decades the lead singer, Jack Russell, had attempted to “revamp” the group. He recruited musicians, some who played in the original group; some who did not. They began touring the country but this wa...